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Re: pg_stop_backup does not complete

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-02-25T16:37:23Z
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
> > OK, can you go through the reasons why pg_stop_backup would not
> > complete?  
> 
> pg_stop_backup() doesn't complete until all the WAL segments needed to
> restore from the backup are archived. If archive_command is failing,
> that never happens.

Yes, very old behavior allowed people to think they had a full backup
when the WAL files needed were not all archived, which was a bad thing. 
Thankfully no one reported catastrophic failure from the old behavior.

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